PlayStation Plus April Update: Demon’s Souls Free for Members

It’s the first of April, and with the new month comes a new look at content coming to PlayStation Plus — there’s much to take in, with Plus members getting the venerable Demon’s Souls free. In addition to the monthly overview, this week brings more goodies, such as a sale on the award-winning The Walking Dead series, and more discounts on fan-favorites like Rainbow Moon and the Soldner-X series.

LOL I just imagine my 150SL warrior slaughtering newcomers. anyway it can'T work like that I think you need to at least be within 10% of the SL. Been A while since I played it though, could be a great moment to dive back in!

OMG this is sick! PS+ is out of control... so much bang for your bucks... DS is a beast... totally going back to made newcomers life miserable... and don't whine about that, being pwned by phantoms is part of the deal...

I died many times and hated it.... Poor graphics, bad enviroment, and losing my souls i spent an hour gathering. Cant count how many times ive fallen down a hole because the dungeons are so dark just to lose the orbs i had gathered. Game has weaker rpg elements than mass effect.

Yeah...as a DS vet I have died a lot, but it was only so I could manipulate the world tendencies to black.

Once you have gotten each world down you learn to pace yourself and don't die often.

Tips for new players: 1) Unless manipulating world tendencies - STAY IN SOUL-FORM!!! 2) Shield Up ALWAYS 3) Use Spears - they allow you long reach and you can keep your shield up while attacking 4) Pace yourself and memorize enemy locations 5) If you really want to whore the game start as a Royal - Soul Arrow is a freaking godsend.

@GameSpawn: For getting the Talisman of Beast you need alter your character tendency or the world tendency. I would not recommend this for beginners. But you want to get this item the easiest way would be to turn world 2 into pure black tendency and kill ST instead of having a black character tendency and do all the assination quests for M. I also recommend to get the Crescent Falchion +1 from world 4 and upgrade this one, because it also have magic damage that helps you alot in the beginning (instead of using a spear).

Yeah. My setup is what I ended on (Lvl 40 in all stats in New Game +). Trust me it is not for beginners.

I always went for spears, again because you can constantly block while attacking (Offensive-Defense). Some people like to run around though and for that style one-handed swords work well. Tanking (High armor and two handed, slow attacking high damage weapons) cannot be done in Demon's Souls until you reach very high levels, until then you really need the mobility.

The Winged Spear is the best spear in the game, but if you really want a spear with Magic damage you can make the Winged Spear into a Moon Winged Spear.

Also the total weight of the Gloom Armor Set isn't very light so you really need to get your stats up there to equip it all. The reason I like the Gloom Armor vs all the others is that it gives you the best balance of "Fire/Poison/Plague/Magic Resist" to "Physical Resist" without needing to change armor constantly. The Gloom Armor really hits it's stride in world 5 due to its high plague and poison resist.

If you have the strength and want to have really good fire resist, Brushwood is where it is at (great for world 2). Unless you are wading through fire though, the Purple Flame Shield will cover you from fire attacks and your armor can concentrate on covering Physical and Magic Resist.

This game is awesome & if u like challenge, u will find it here.. But its not unfair hard by any means.. If u die, u deserved to.. I have it on disc & will NEVER let it go.. This & Dark souls are the best RPGs this gen imo

Tots agree. Demon Souls is one of those games that should never leave your collection. It is a classic for all time, which was such a rare thing to find in this generation of games dominated by clone after clon3 of game concepts we've seen over and over again

Use the Large Sword of Searching as your left hand weapon and a catalyst in your right hand. Go backward from Old Hero's boss room in pure black world tendency and sneak up behind the black phantom dual katana skeleton and use Soulsucker (magic). Repeat until it drops... This method has worked within 1 hour for all of my characters that required it. Good luck to ya.

Wow. To me this is the best reason to have PS+ yet. Demon's Souls is my #1 game of the generation and possibly ever. I don't know how many agree with that, and don't care much honestly, but you guys about to play it for the first time are in for a treat, especially if you haven't played Dark Souls (my #2 game of the gen) either. That was too many commas but the Souls series does that to me. May thine strength help the world be mended.

The great thing about PS+ is that they pick a lot of lesser-known games to add for free. A few of the recent ones - Spec Ops and Vanquish - are two of my favorite shooters this gen but a lot of people missed it. But of course, free means people will probably try them out. Long live PS+!

Please tell me that you don't only like this game because of invasions.

"totally going back to made newcomers life miserable... and don't whine about that, being pwned by phantoms is part of the deal..."

No, it is NOT. And that's why we have BANISH.

To all newcomers, learn/acquire the Banish miracle as it sends all black phantoms back to there own world and causing them to lose a soul level at the same time to avoid aholes like this.

For some reason people like this think everyone enjoys what they do and you are playing it wrong if you don't like/play it the way they do.

Nothing worse than trying to have some co-op fun and some douchbag griefer who only likes DS because it allows him to spread misery and added frustration because that's HIS idea of fun.

These people aren't looking for a fair fight or a challenge as they could simply use the red eye stone to find others who want PvP combat and avoid those who play DS for the Co-op PvE combat, which are two very different playstyles and experiences.

You can also quit out the game to make them lose out as well if you find yourself getting invaded a lot before acquiring the banish miracle. It feels really good to shat on them too, makes them rage a lot lol.

@bluetoto I don't play Demon Souls or Dark Souls for the online at all, I play it for the whole thing, you know the reason it cost 30 bucks, or the reason it cost 60 bucks. I feel like you insulted me for being a cheater, but i can't truly say that you did because I didn't bother reading anything besides the first three sentences. However, getting back to the point. I was stating that I wish they did this back them to get the true material. Meaning that I remember playing Demon Souls back then and trying to hunt for special material, or trying to get souls, and the only way you can get all white worlds is if either you never die, or if you kill all intruders, or do something good for some npc's and not for others. Do you understand what I'm saying?

@BitbyDeath: what guy do you mean? the one on the stairs in the nexus or another one. I recomment for your first playthrough not to kill any NPCs because this changes your character tendency and makes the game even harder, especially if your world tends to white tendency which is the way when you killed one or more deamons in the world without dying in human form.

The easiest is probably the Royalty class. I like the Temple Knight more though. Don't get discouraged early. It might take some grinding but once you start to remember the enemies and where to be it's not so bad.

Ima try and get off the first level. Now, i will say this, when i do get off the first level omg, im throwing a party. Mark my words i will Platinum this game. Why? This is the only game that frustrates me. Its now a must.